Re: FLASH: Livemotion into Flash

[John Dowdell]

At 2:03 PM 9/13/0, Brian Mays wrote:

> Does Flash 5 have the capabilities of opening a Livemotion

> file in editable form in Flash?


You can open up a LiveMotion SWF... it's usually a little funky, but it's a

way to transfer artwork. (LiveMotion doesn't export sequential Illustrator

files like Macromedia Flash does.)


The SWF file format is optimized for delivery, though, and doesn't contain

a range of editing structures like a FLA does. It's hard to figure how to

translate some Livemotion entities however... they call one part of an

object "a layer", like a dropshadow or a bitmap fill, so it's hard to

figure how they would transfer to Flash's industry-standard use of "layer"

as "a stackable collection of individually editable objects".


Although it's *possible* to open LiveMotion SWFs, it may not be worth the

hassle... their interface is set up to entice people to create bitmap-heavy

SWFs, and you may have more cleanup work to do than is reasonable. What you

*might* consider is having your editor to proof-of-concept work in some

other SWF-producing tool, and then you create the tight final deliverables

in Macromedia Flash itself.


But then again, if your creative director isn't confident enough of their

abilities to use the standard toolset, then they may be designing bad SWFs

too... technotes #14300 and #14494 can help orient people to this new

delivery medium.


It's a difficult job you have there... smoothest overall might be if you

sit down with that person for a few F5 sessions so they see that they can

actually do it.


jd





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